Each year, the Luzas camp on our land in Dime Box for Easter. We go out there on Wednesday night, set up our camp, clean up the area a bit and get things ready for the others to arrive. Our first evening there was so beautiful. After a warm/muggy few days, the air cooled and was just perfect for camping!
sunset was gorgeous
a monster? oh no!
no, it’s just Indigo
Thursday, as Emil was searching for wood for our fires, he found an unwelcome visitor. We’re sure the Viperidae Crotalinae Crotalus didn’t take too kindly to us being in his home, either.
as Emil was killing him with the shovel, the snake struck….and buried his fangs into the blade of the shovel.
After two beautiful days of great camping weather, the much-anticipated storm front moved in. We awoke Saturday morning (early!) to the sound of sleet landing on our tent. After a couple of years of camping in the Gila National Forrest with our Alterntive Spring Break students, this was old hat to us. We were warm and toasty in our tent, so venturing out to help with the annual barbecue was NOT easy!
We grilled and prepped (and took phone calls from all the cancellations!) in the sleet and rain and braved the weather with Charles, Elain, Diane, Jonathan, Erin, Alexa, Bobby, Patty, Nathan, and Ben. We ate quickly, packed up in a flash, and headed home. Lori headed straight for a hot bath so she could warm up and rest before shooting a wedding that evening.
whew! what a weekend!
SOOOOO much better than working!
